Gender in Value Chain Toolkit

Result from cooperation in Network

Result from cooperation A road map for practitioners interested in making their value chain work gender-sensitiven Value Chains Network

The Toolkit

The Toolkit

Objective: To motivate and help practitioners in integrating a gender perspective in agricultural value chain interventions and programs.

Two types of tools:1. To support data-collection and research to gain insight into gender

constraints, opportunities and strategies within value chains; 2. To guide the facilitation of participatory processes in order to involve

male and female value chain actors at different stages.3. To combine interventions in an approach

The tools are selected from existing manuals. (a.o. USAID, GIZ, ILO, Oxfam, SNV)

2nd edition from the toolkit (hard copy) is available as from October 2013 The toolkit is also downloadable from the Gender in Value chain NingAs from October also the seperate tools will be downloadable

Were can I find the toolkit?

Can I download the toolkit?

Tools for each phase of the project cycle

ToolGender

Mapping

ToolGender Based

Constraint

ToolContributing to product

quality

ToolThe

household approach

Cost & Benefits of

VC interventions

1. ‘Mapping’ a value chain from a gender perspective

Objective• Make contributions of women to the value chain visible, also the ‘invisible’

ones • Identify involvement of women in the segments of the value chain where

value adding is high;• Use a gender lens to identify bottlenecks in the value chain.

What do you gain from using it? • Insight in constraints faced by different gender groups in undertaking their

activities in different nodes of the value chain• Support to define actions to address these constraints

Steps: 1. Analyzing gender based constraints per actor and activity in the value

chain2. Identification of actions to address gender-based constraints 

2. Analyzing Gender Based constaints

Steps Analyzing Gender Based constaints

Steps Analyzing Gender Based constaints

3. Making visible who contributes how to the quality of the productWhat do you gain from using it?• Make men and women’s contribution to the quality of products and

processes in the value chain visible. • Create awareness of the unequal distribution of benefits between men

and women from participating in the value chain.

How does it work?• Men and women work in separate groups • Sharing and discussions their conclusions

in plenary

4. Assessing costs and benefits of an intervention strategy for men and womenWhat do you gain from using it? • Assess the possible or actual costs and benefits of the value chain

upgrading strategy for different actors in the value chain, • considering relevant dimensions such as amount of work, income, social

position or market position. • Analyze costs and benefits differentiated by gender.  How does it work?• In a workshop men and women analyze the (potential) effects of an

upgrading strategy for different actors, male and female). • Using the cost - benefit matrix for reporting. • Use different colors for positive and negative changes. • Each group presents its completed matrix in a plenary session.